Personalised brain, mind, and body health coaching can benefit from customising interventions to individual needs and preferences. This approach leverages technology and professional expertise to promote healthy habits and enhance well-being.
One significant benefit is the enhancement of brain health through multidomain interventions. The Intelligent Coaching Assistant (ICA), developed as part of the Barcelona Brain Health Initiative (BBHI), uses personalised recommendations based on users’ current habits, preferences, and motivational aspects to design suitable intervention plans. This technology-based intervention has shown high feasibility, acceptability, and usability in real-world settings.[1]
Health coaching also supports behaviour change, a crucial step in managing lifestyle-related diseases. The coach approach fosters a patient-centred collaborative partnership, helping individuals build psychological skills such as mindfulness, self-awareness, self-motivation, resilience, optimism, and self-efficacy. This method has demonstrated potential benefits in managing conditions like hyperlipidemia, diabetes, cancer pain, asthma, weight loss, and increasing physical activity.[2]
Moreover, virtual professional coaching has been effective in improving mental health and psychological well-being. Longitudinal studies have shown that virtual coaching can enhance stress management, resilience, life satisfaction, emotional regulation, self-awareness, self-efficacy, and social connection over time.[3]
In summary, personalised health coaching can significantly benefit individuals by promoting brain, mental, and physical health, facilitating behaviour change, and improving mental health and well-being through tailored, evidence-based interventions.
- Intelligent Coaching Assistant for the Promotion of Healthy Habits in a Multidomain mHealth-Based Intervention for Brain Health. Moreno-Blanco D, Solana-Sánchez J, Sánchez-González P, et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021;18(20):10774. doi:10.3390/ijerph182010774.
- Coaching for Behavior Change in Physiatry. Frates EP, Moore MA, Lopez CN, McMahon GT. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 2011;90(12):1074-82. doi:10.1097/PHM.0b013e31822dea9a.
- The Time to Change for Mental Health and Wellbeing via Virtual Professional Coaching: Longitudinal Observational Study. Jeannotte AM, Hutchinson DM, Kellerman GR. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2021;. doi:10.2196/27774.